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Joseph S. Ransmeier
E-mail:  joe@ranspell.com

Joe is one of the founders of Ransmeier & Spellman and a Fellow and past New Hampshire State Chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Joe was born in New Orleans, LA on June 19, 1915.  In 1952, he joined Sulloway, Hollis, Godfrey & Soden, Concord, N.H. (partner, 1957-78), and founded Ransmeier & Spellman in 1979. He formerly served as a Director of Concord Electric Company, Concord Savings Bank and Community Bankshares. He is author of The Tennessee Valley Authority, (Vanderbilt U. Press 1942) and contributor of articles in various professional journals.

Joe lives with his wife, Margaret, at their country home in Hopkinton where they raised four children. He has served as Town Selectman and School Board member as well as member of the Hopkinton Village Planning Board, Board of Adjustment and Moderator. His lifelong interest in the out-of doors made him an early conservationist and more recently a dedicated environmental protectionist. Other interests are gardening, tennis, classical music and the dream of a World Series win for the Chicago White Sox! Representative memberships: Visitors Committee, Michigan Law School; Sierra Club; Environmental Defense Fund; Audubon Society (State and National), Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests; Appalachian Mountain Club, 4,000' Club; New Hampshire Historical Society.

Education: Oberlin College, [economics] Phi Beta Kappa,1936; Social Science Research Council predoctoral fellow in economics, 1936-39; Brookings Institution Graduate Research Fellow, 1939-40;   Columbia University,  M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1942; US Army (1942-45); Dartmouth College faculty in economics, 1946-52; University of Michigan Law School, J.D.1952, editor Michigan Law Review, Order of Coif.

Bar Admissions: New Hampshire and American Bar Associations; ABA Tax Section.

Professional Activities: Fellow and past State Chair (for N. H.), American College of Trust and Estate Counsel ("ACTEC").

Concentration: Public utility law and trusts and estates.